NORTH ADAMS, MASS. - Wilco and Billy Bragg, nearly three decades after collaborating on "Mermaid Avenue," will reunite to bring the album to life once again. For the first time ever, the band and folk ...

Billy Bragg, the British folk-rock singer and lifelong figure in protest music, has shared a new song for Palestine. The release coincides with the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which set sail ...

Behind the heartfelt Billy Bragg sound is a world of eclectic influences, some more outlandish than others, that expands his vulnerable sound even further.

NORTH ADAMS — "The world needs all the Woody Guthrie it can get." “Mermaid Avenue Live,” the first-ever full-length concert of music from the acclaimed “Mermaid Avenue” songbook by Wilco and Billy ...

Elsewhere he is even more gloomy. On the opening "January Song", he suggests "this is how the end begins" over a lachrymose pedal steel refrain. The music is never upbeat, but its Nashville twang – ...

In general, I believe Tucson has all of the concerts a person needs to attend, but occasionally, something notable happens up north and a drive to Phoenix is in order. A show by Billy Bragg, who doesn ...

A better title for this album would be Too Damned English. That’s always been Bragg’s problem, as far as his inability to break out in America is concerned. Even hard-core U.S. left-wingers have a ...

Making their Mariposa Folk Festival debut are Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, St. Paul & the ...

Billy Bragg performs onstage during Latitude at Henham Park on July 25 in Southwold, England. Bragg and Wilco will reunite for the first-ever performance of “Mermaid Avenue” at Wilco’s biannual Solid ...

Billy Bragg, the British folk-rock protest singer, has always spoken out loud and clear about issues of politics, morality, and justice, be it rebutting Oliver Anthony's viral grievance anthem "Rich ...